The race, in three figures
The race, in words
1:21:56 at Johannesburg 2025 put Paul Shackleton & Ryan Aitken 141st of 439 men's teams in the Doubles Open division, ahead of 68% of the field.
The runs carried this race: faster than 83% of the field over the eight kilometres, against 22% on the stations. On the sandbag lunges the field had the edge, by 1:59. Time in the roxzone, 6:11, was faster than 86% of the field.
Johannesburg cost the whole field time: about 8:12 more than the average race this season, going by 201 teams who raced both.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 8:09Running 1 3:47v median −0:32
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Block 02 7:01Running 2 5:06v median −0:50
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Block 03 9:18Running 3 5:27v median −0:53
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Block 04 9:49Running 4 5:29v median −0:54
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Block 05 10:42Running 5 5:47v median −0:46
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Block 06 6:48Running 6 5:28v median −1:02
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Block 07 11:27Running 7 5:40v median −0:53
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Block 08 12:40Running 8 6:18v median −0:50
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 6:11
Against the middle of your field
Men · n = 436
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 436 men's teams who finished.